Donald Jay Grout (September 28, 1902 – March 9, 1987) was an American musicologist. He is best known as the author of A Short History of Opera, first published in 1947. The fourth edition was published by Columbia University Press in 2003.
Grout was born in Rock Rapids, Iowa. He attended Syracuse University and graduated with a degree in philosophy in 1923. He took his Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1939. He taught at Harvard from 1936 to 1942, at the University of Texas from 1942 to 1945 and at Cornell University until 1970.[1]
Early in his career, Grout's main body of research was in opera. After 1960 he became more interested in philosophies of music history, due in large part to his publication of a general music history textbook, A History of Western Music. A ninth edition of the book was published in 2014; after Grout's death, the new editions were revised by Claude Palisca and J. Peter Burkholder.[2]
Grout also performed as a pianist and organist until the early 1950s. He served as editor of JAMS from 1948 to 1951, and was president of the American Musicological Society (1952–54, 1960–62) and the International Musicological Society (1961–64).[1]
A reassessment of Grout's historiography was published in 2011 in the inaugural volume of Journal of Music History Pedagogy.[3]
^ abJones, Gaynor G., and Claude V. Palisca. "Grout, Donald J(ay)", Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, retrieved 23 March 2018
^"A History of Western Music", WorldCat, retrieved 23 March 2018
^Kristy Johns Swift. "Grappling with Donald J. Grout's Essays on Music Historiography", Journal of Music History Pedagogy], 1 (2011)
DonaldJayGrout (September 28, 1902 – March 9, 1987) was an American musicologist. He is best known as the author of A Short History of Opera, first published...
University Press, 2006). ISBN 978-0-19-861459-3. J. Peter Burkholder, DonaldJayGrout and Claude V. Palisca, A History of Western Music, eighth edition (New...
Musicological Society, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Summer, 1965), p. 170 Grout and Williams, 30 Opera portal DonaldJayGrout, Hermine Weigel Williams; A Short History of Opera...
University Press, 1969). ISBN 0674375017. James Peter Burkholder, DonaldJayGrout, and Claude V. Palisca A History of Western Music, eighth edition (New...
brought a speedy victory of the nosiy guitar over the dignified lute". DonaldJayGrout, A History Of Western Music, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1962, Chapter...
players; it's also the listeners. They will hear tonality in everything". DonaldJayGrout similarly doubted whether atonality is really possible, because "any...
several modern-day instruments of a symphonic orchestra. However, DonaldJayGrout notes that attempting to create a direct evolutionary connection from...
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and assigned particular chants to the various services. According to DonaldJayGrout, his goal was to organize the bodies of chants from diverse traditions...
Musicians (1980 edition), "Ballad opera." Sources Barbara Russano Hanning, DonaldJayGrout: Concise History of Western Music, W. W. Norton & Company, 1998. Grove...
the Wayback Machine. Burkholder, J. Peter, Claude V. Palisca, and DonaldJayGrout. 2006. Norton anthology of western music. New York: W.W. Norton. Pope...
famous and influential works of the 20th century; the musicologist DonaldJayGrout described it as having "the effect of an explosion that so scattered...
University of Rochester Press. ISBN 1-58046-160-3. Burkholder, J. Peter, DonaldJayGrout, and Claude V. Palisca. 2009. A History of Western Music, eighth edition...
..one of the finest opere serie of the early eighteenth century": DonaldJayGrout e Hermine Weigel Williams, A Short History of Opera (quarta edizione)...
Green: New York 1921) 31. Henderson, Early History of Singing, 1. DonaldJayGrout and Claude Palisca, A History of Western Music (New York: W.W. Norton...
describe the work as "Berlioz's masterpiece" include Rupert Christiansen, DonaldJayGrout, Lord Harewood, D. Kern Holoman, Roger Parker and Michael Kennedy....
outsider to the dramatic action of the opera. The music historian DonaldJayGrout has written that in this opera Puccini's comic skill is "seen at its...
Jean-Philippe Rameau: His Life and Work (Dover paperback edition, 1969) DonaldJayGrout, A Short History of Opera (Columbia University Press, 2003 edition)...
Renaissance. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1954. ISBN 0-393-09530-4 (1) DonaldJayGrout, A History of Western Music. New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 1980. ISBN 0-393-95136-7...
Hoppin, 507 and 510. DonaldJayGrout and Claude Palisca, A History of Western Music, 5th ed., New York: Norton, 1996, 142. Grout and Palisca, 164. Jeppesen...
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